Dr Andrew Bates suggests having professional appraisals and fact-checking exercises to keep our elected representatives doing what they should
The Guardian keeps the readership excellently apprised of the (mis)behaviour of some of our ministers and MPs. Surely the time is right to bring politics closer to the lived experience of more voters. I suggest two changes that could contribute to this.
First, rather than MPs being able to tell us proudly that they are accountable every five years at the ballot box, what if they were required to participate in an annual independent appraisal process that would be published in the spirit of transparency?
